The BEST episodes directed by Don Richardson
#1 - Follow the Leader
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 29
John falls into a cave containing a centuries-old mummy, whose spirit possesses John’s body.
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#2 - The Diplomat
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 8
Information on U.S. missile control centers has been stolen and turned over to Valentin Yetkoff, military attache and agent of an enemy power. The IMF must keep Yetkoff from confirming the information and in fact lead him to believe it is false. They go after Yetkoff's main man, The IMF recruit a Presidential aid and his wife Susan, and Susan woos Toland and lets him see she and her husband have top-secret papers relating to the missile centers. Toland kills Susan with an overdose and photographs the papers, but the IMF revives her just in time. Phelps presents himself to Yetkoff as one of the agents' underlings and gives Yetkoff proof that the stolen information is correct. Yetkoff finds out Jim is isn't who he pretends to be and believes therefore the information must be incorrect. When Toland presents his own proof that the stolen information is correct, Yetkoff believes he is an enemy U.S. agent and has him killed, then informs his superiors the information they stole is false.
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#3 - Jennifer
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 7
A telegram arrives at Shiloh revealing Judge Garth's late sister's daughter, Jennifer Sommers, will be arriving shortly from Boston. Meanwhile, in nearby Tylerville, Johnny Bradford (James MacArthur) leaves a saloon and is watched by a man (Hal Needham) who trails him into a nearby warehouse. However, Johnny shoots and kills the man. The stage headed for Medicine Bow arrives in Tylerville with Jennifer aboard and she meets Johnny who is boarding the stage to travel beyond Medicine Bow. She admits to him that she is going to live at Shiloh but does not know Judge Garth and they become friendly. Arriving in Medicine Bow, Jennifer is met by the Judge and Randy. At Shiloh, the Judge admits he was not close to his sister and Jennifer admits she came only because she had no place else to go and is not necessarily enamoured of the idea. The next morning the Virginian takes Jennifer on a tour of Shiloh and they come across an old cabin which the Virginian says was the first house Judge Garth a
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The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 9
Joanna Moore stars as the pretty head of a struggling freight company to whom smitten Buck Cannon not only offers his help but a proposal of marriage. Buck is swept off his feet by the down-to-earth Charly Converse, who hits town with her crew of wagons and drivers bent on building a freight-hauling business. Buck stuns everybody with his decision to take a wife. Pardee, Charly's unscrupulous competitor, makes a last ditch stand to run her out of town, and the business as well as Buck's romance undergoes a true test.
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#5 - Underground Munster
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 13
The Munsters' pet Spot runs away from home and is mistaken for a dangerous monster when he is sighted in the sewer. When Herman goes down the manhole to search for Spot, he too is mistaken for a dangerous monster. The Mayor vows to rid the city of these menaces by using TNT.
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#6 - The Challenge
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 22
The Robinsons encounter a militant boy who is determined to prove his superiority over the earthlings.
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#7 - Daisy's Pick
Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 7
The bachelor members of Station 51 are in competition for first date with the beautiful new nurse at Rampart. The station rescues a man frozen to the floor of an ice house and a man from a theatre fire. Roy and Johnny help a man whose hands are glued to a model boat.
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#8 - Ryker
The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 1
A former law man and now hired gun, Emmett Ryker (Clu Gulager), heads to Medicine Bow at the request of Hagen (Leslie Nielsen). Hagen holds a mortgage on the ranch of Hale (Russ Conway), a friend of Judge Garth, and wants to run the rancher off the property. Being a man of some morals, Ryker refuses to become involved but when Hale is killed he is suspected of the crime. Ryker becomes friends with Trampas and agrees to help Hale's daughter Janet (Anne Helm) bring the guilty parties to justice.
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#9 - Quicker Than the Eye
Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 8
Tired of Chet's antics, the guys at the station get their revenge by playing practical jokes of their own. A gun discharges by accident and injures a pregnant woman, a construction worker caught under a boat refuses an IV, and a man in a motorcycle accident communicates through his thumb.
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#10 - The Golden Man
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 15
The Robinson women and Dr Smith become involved in a war between the leaders of two alien civilizations.
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#11 - KAOS in CONTROL
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 7
CONTROL is due to host a conference of six scientific geniuses, but just before it occurs,. KAOS manages to steal CONTROL's retrogressor gun. The gun, which turns adults into children mentally, is taken by a KAOS mole who manages to retrogress the gun's inventor and the Chief. KAOS' goal is to turn the scientists into children, destroying the free world's greatest minds.
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#12 - Our Man in Toyland
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 4
KAOS is secretly smuggling secrets out of the country. 99 discovers they are using a Department Store as a front and Polly Dollys to smuggle out the secrets. When one pulls the doll's string, Polly reveals top secrets. Max and 99 get caught by KAOS. Using children's toys, Max and 99 attempt to fight their way to safety and stop KAOS' smuggling ring.
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#13 - Hunter's Moon
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 4
John is captured by a maniacal humanoid and made the quarry in a sadistic big-game hunt.
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#14 - The Android Machine
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 7
Dr Smith is provided with a female robot who declares that she is his, forever.
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#15 - The Flaming Planet
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 22
The Robinsons must contend with a rapidly growing plant and missiles fired by aliens.
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#16 - A Little Learning
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 3
After release from prison, Bert Kramer (Bruce Dern) comes to Medicine Bow to find his estranged wife who is the new school teacher, Martha Perry (Susan Oliver). A Shiloh hand, Rafe Simmons (Albert Salmi), tells the Virginian he is quitting. He goes to town, get a job in the harness shop and gets Martha to teach him to read. Bert Kramer arrives in town and is spotted by Emmett Ryker who recognizes him as a hired gun. Rumours are spread that Rafe and the schoolteacher are having an affair. A local barber, Cal Beeson (Harry Townes), who has had a run in with Rafe, and Bert Kramer plot together to ambush the harness shop worker. However, Rafe manages to get the upper hand. In a struggle over a gun, Bert is killed but Rafe is cleared by the actions of the Virginian and Martha who get Beeson's young son to own up to the plot.
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#17 - Wild Adventure
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 2
Shortly after leaving their original crash-site planet, Smith spots a familiar star and, in an amazing show of stellar navigational skill, calculates the course to get back to Earth. He extracts a promise from Don and John that they'll return to Earth, or else he'll destroy his navigation data. They agree, but inform the family at dinnertime that they are headed for Alpha Centauri after all, mainly because the Earth is on the other side of the Sun (how do they know that? - do they know the date? And besides, from Alpha Centauri, Earth revolves clockwise, visible all the time). Smith changes course 180 degrees, then clumsily jettisons most of the fuel. They reach a refueling barge, one of several that Alpha Control put out in 1996, top up the tanks, and resume course for Alpha Centauri, not knowing that they've picked up a tailgater who follows them after Smith reverses course to Earth again. The alarm goes off in the night, and they expend a lot of fuel pulling away from the Earth's
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#18 - Collision of Planets
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 9
The Robinson's come across a group of space hippies who are trying to destroy the planet the Robinson's currently inhabit.
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#19 - The Cave of the Wizards
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 22
Smith is lured into a tomblike cave, where he falls under the spell of a computer.
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#20 - The Lost Civilization
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 27
The Robinson men discover an underground civilization while exploring a huge cave.
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#21 - Little Girl Lost
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 8
A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, comes to the Ponderosa. While she proves to be a handful, Ben (who tracks down the girl's mother) really has his hands full when her grandfather comes to the Ponderosa demanding custody.
#22 - Ring of Silence
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 6
Emmett Ryker is amongst a group of stagecoach passengers and crew waylaid by and trapped in an isolated cabin by a group of Mexicans from a small cross-border town. The Mexicans want one of the passengers, a cowboy named Wylie (Earl Holliman), for murdering a woman but Emmett believes Wylie should be turned over to the American authorities for a proper hearing. A siege and gun battle ensues but in the end, the Virginian and Trampas, who are waiting for Emmett in a nearby town, come to the rescue of their missing friend.
#23 - The Thief from Outer Space
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 9
An intergalactic thief forces Will to join his search for a long-lost princess.
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#24 - A Visit to Hades
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 12
Smith is transported to a hellish place where he becomes the terrified tool of a satanic stranger.
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#25 - The Dream Monster
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 14
An alien plans to drain all emotions from the Robinsons.
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#26 - Forbidden World
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 4
The Robinsons are trapped on a fog-shrouded planet.
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#27 - Kidnapped in Space
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 3
Mechanical men threaten the travelers with death unless someone can fix their robot leader.
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#28 - Revolt of the Androids
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 24
The Robinsons place their lives in jeopardy when they become involved in a revolt of half-human androids.
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#29 - The Astral Traveler
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 29
While exploring a mysterious cave, Will is transported through space to a haunted Scottish castle.
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#30 - Space Destructors
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 6
Dr Smith activates a robot-manufacturing machine that turns out an army of obedient automatons.
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#31 - Two Weeks in Space
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 13
Smith turns the Jupiter 2 into a hotel for humanoids, unaware that they are fugitives from space justice.
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#32 - The Great Vegetable Rebellion
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 23
The Robinsons land on a planet where plants talk and seek revenge against the animal world.
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#33 - The Questing Beast
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 17
Will learns the meaning of chivalry and honor when he serves as page to a knight-errant.
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#34 - Return Engagement
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 22
En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by the beautiful actress, which makes her leading man jealous. When he is killed during a performance, Lotta and then Hoss are suspected of the death. It is up to Ben to set things straight.
#35 - Princess of Space
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 17
Penny agrees to impersonate a long-lost princess to help quash a computer uprising.
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#36 - A Darker Shadow
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 10
A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.
#37 - Sweet Annie Laurie
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 15
Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career criminal who is determined to keep his wife under his control and travel with her throughout the southwest, any which way he can.
#38 - The Witness
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 2
A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagecoach. The Cartwrights hide her at the Ponderosa, but that is only the beginning of what Jenny will learn from spinning tall tales.
#39 - Rocket to Earth
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 21
Smith is keen for the job of sorcerer’s apprentice after learning that a space magician’s rocket ship can reach Earth in a few hours.
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#40 - Erin
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 18
A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin – a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians since her childhood – when Ben allows the Paiutes to camp on Ponderosa land.
#41 - Mutiny in Space
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 19
Will and Dr. Smith pursue the first mate who marooned Admiral Zahrt on their planet.
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#42 - Is There Any Man Here?
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 19
When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.
#43 - For a Young Lady
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 14
A girl's uncle and aunt want custody of her only because they believe she has the rights to her late grandfather's mine.
#44 - A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 4
When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hoss quickly finds his hands full dealing with a reluctant groom, who plans a robbery to make himself less appealing to his assertive fiancé; and a persistent salesman wanting to sell stock for a resort in the Virginia City area. Will Virginia City ever be the same?